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ContentsAcknowledgements1. Introduction: Writing a Critical Anthology of Women Poets in Translation2. Poets of the Pre-Islamic Period¿Abla bint Khalid at-TamimiyyaAd-Da¿ja¿ bint WahbAl-Basus bint Munqidh al-BikriyyaAl-Fari¿a bint Mu¿awiya al-QushairiyyaAl-Jaida¿ bint Zahir al-ZubaidiyyaAl-Khansa¿ bint Zuhair bin Abi SalmaAn-Nawwar al-JulAsma¿ al-MariyyaAs-Sulaka Umm as-SulaikBarra bint ¿Abdu-l-Mu¿¿alib¿a¿iya al-HilaliyyaDahknatus bint Luqai¿Dijaja bint ¿afwanFa¿ima bint Murr al-Khuth¿amiyyaFari¿a al-MuriyyaHazila al-JudaisiyyaHind al-Jula¿iyyaHind bint al-Khus¿usaina bint Jabir bint Bujair al-¿IjliIbnat a¿-¿a¿ak bin Sufyan (¿abiba bint a¿-¿a¿ak)Jalila bint Murra ash-ShaibaniyyaJariyat Humam ibn MurraKarma bint ¿il¿Laila al-¿AfifaLaila bint MirdasManfusa bint Zaid al-KhailRai¿a bint ¿A¿iyyaRai¿a bint Jadhl a¿-¿a¿an¿afiyya al-Bahiliyya¿afiyya bint Tha¿laba al-ShaibaniyyaSubai¿a bint al-A¿abSu¿da al-AsadiyyaSu¿da al-LakhmiyyaSulaima bint al-MuhalhalSumayya Zawjat Shaddad al-¿Absi¿ariqaTuma¿ir b

About the Author

Wessam Elmeligi is Assistant Professor NTT at the Department of Classical Mediterranean and Middle East at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, and Associate Professor at the English Department, the Faculty of Education, Damanhur University, Egypt. With a PhD in literary theory, his research interests include comparative literature, narratology, psychoanalysis, gender and women’s studies, visual analysis of film and art, digital humanities, as well as translation. He has published articles and book chapters on Naguib Mahfouz, Radwa Ashour and the modern Arabic novel, Bernard Shaw and Arabic adaptations of the English theatre, and the Arabian Nights. He has also written and illustrated two graphic novels, Y&Y and Jamila.